Out-of-order strata occur at the Lewis overthrust

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 Related claims 6 See Also 7 Acknowledgments

Claim

At the Lewis Overthrust in Alberta and Montana, Precambrian limestone rests on top of Cretaceous shales, which conventionally are dated much later. The evidence, and common sense, do not support the explanation that the discontinuity is caused by a thrust fault.

Source

• Price, George McCready, 1913. The Fundamentals of Geology, Pacific Press, Mountain View, CA, pp. 7-8, 101-103; cited in Numbers, R., 1992, The Creationists, Knopf, NY.
• Whitcomb, John C. Jr. & Morris, Henry M., 1961. The Genesis Flood, Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., Philadelphia, PA, pp. 185-195.

Responses

1. Creationists who make this claim refuse to appreciate the fact that strata can be folded when force is applied to them very gradually, over millions of years through geological processes such as compression or overthrust.
2. Creationists who make this claim refuse to appreciate the fact that portions of strata can be eroded away.
3. Conversely, Flood Geology is incapable of describing how a formation like the Lewis overthrust was formed.
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Fallacies contained in this claim

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Related claims

• Geological column is sometimes out of order

See Also

• Why is Creationism not a Scientific Theory?

Acknowledgments